NeeJs  Xke 
World  Over 


Issued  by  the  Foreign  Depart- 
ment, Northeastern  Field  Commit- 
tee, National  Board,  Young 
Womens  Christian  Associations, 
1918 


Women  in  India  and  the  War 

lyf/ OMEN’S  JJ^ar  U'ork  in  India?  Is  India  in  the  war?  These 
are  the  first  questions  that  greet  the  returning  secretary 
from  India.  People  do  not  realize  that  India  has  been  in  the  war 
from  the  very  beginning.  In  Bombay  a mass  meeting  of  women 
of  all  languages  and  castes  was  called  within  three  weeks  after  war 
was  declared  for  the  purpose  of  organizing  Red  Cross  war  relief 
work.  Because  the  Young  Women’s  Christian  Association  had  the 
most  efficient  machinery  for  organization  in  that  city,  its  forces 
were  offered  at  once  for  service.  The  President  was  the  organiz- 
ing genius,  which  set  in  motion  the  system  which  has  proved  efficient 
through  four  years  of  strain.  Here  Mohammedan,  Parsee,  Hindu 
and  British  women  had  an  equal  opportunity  for  service,  and  the 
greatest  record  of  work  accomplished  is  that  of  a Alohammedan 
woman  who  prepared  six  thousand  articles  for  comfort  bags  during 
the  second  year  of  the  war.  One  woman  said,  “What  shall  we  do 
when  the  war  is  over?  I like  coming  here  to  meet  other  women;  I 
like  to  help  other  people.  What  shall  I do  when  the  war  is  over?” 
And  what  will  she  do  ? 


Madras  Administration  Building 


Having  come  out  from  the  confines  of  Purdah,  is  it  possible 
for  her  ever  to  return?  If  not,  who  will  guide  her  mind  and  activi- 
ties and  conserve  her  desires  for  service  and  turn  it  to  count  for  her 
sister’s  sake  in  the  new  day  of  reconstruction  following  peace? 
Where  can  the  1 oung  Women’s  Christian  Association  do  more  for 
the  cause  of  Christian  democracy  than  in  India? 


Tokyo 

Largest  Student  Center  in  the  JForld. 

The  Tokyo  administration  building  was  made  possible  by  gifts 
from  Vassar  College  and  individuals  in  Canada,  England  and 
United  States.  William  Adams  Brown  has  said  it  is  one  of  the 
best  and  most  beautiful  buildings  in  the  Orient.  Japanese  women 
raised  the  money  for  the  site.  It  is  used  by  many  different  women’s 
organizations  in  the  city. 

Classes  are  conducted  in  Bible  study,  English,  stenography, 
typing,  French,  physical  education,  flower  arrangement,  etiquette, 
household  science.  Red  Cross  work,  etc. 

Travelers’  Aid  matrons  are  at  the  Railroad  Stations,  wearing 
their  badges  “Travelers’  Friend’’  to  help  the  simple  country  girls 
who  arrive  with  their  ideas  of  a golden  Tokyo.  A special  cottage 
shelters  them  until  their  friends  are  found  or  positions  are  secured 
or  they  can  be  persuaded  to  return  to  their  homes. 

Hundreds  of  girls  in  the  government  and  private  schools  are 
being  reached  by  the  Association,  the  only  Christian  agency  w'hich 
can  touch  them.  Three  dormitories  accommodate  seventy-five  girls 
from  almost  as  many  different  schools.  There  are  thousands  more 
living  unchaperoned  in  general  boarding  houses. 


Yokohama 


V^OUXG  Japanese  wives  come  to  the 
A United  States  with  no  knowledge  of 
American  life  nor  of  the  English  language. 
This  Association  has  a school  for  train- 
ing these  girls  in  housekeeping,  eti- 
quette, hygiene,  Christian  ethics,  care  of 
babies,  English,  Bible.  Girls  not  taking 
training  are  helped  at  the  boats  and  in  the 
few  days  while  in  port,  and  are  sent  on  into 
the  hands  of  Y.  W.  C.  A.  Immigration  Sec- 
retaries in  San  Francisco.  This  work  must 
be  undertaken  also  in  Kobe  and  Nagasaki  if 
it  is  to  adequately  meet  the  needs  of  the  women  leaving  Japan  for 
America. 


One  Day’s  Lesson 


There  is  regular  club  work  among  Japanese  business  women, 
many  of  whom  are  well  educated  and  hold  responsible  positions 
with  English  and  American  firms. 


When  Little  Wei  Ling 
Came  to  Our  School 

ON  a bright  day  in  Sep- 
tember there  walked 
into  our  Compound  the  lit- 
tle lady  pictured  here.  She 
wore  her  hair  in  a strange 
fashion,  and  she  wore  no 
skirt — just  the  trousers  that 
school  girls  wear.  Shy  and 
yet  eager  was  she,  as  she 
presented  her  credentials 
from  the  Principal  of  her 
school. 

When  she  was  accepted, 
with  a wonderful  smile  she 
brought  forth  her  handker- 
chief and  produced  sixty  big 
silver  dollars  which  she  had 
carried  all  the  way.  Only 
an  unexpected  vacancy 
made  it  possible  to  admit  her.  She  had  a brilliant  mind,  and  did 
her  physical  exercises  most  accurately. 

She  had  never  heard  of  Christianity.  She  had  no  word  in 
her  vocabulary  for  God.  Jesus  Christ,  who  was  He?  And  yet 
in  the  spring  of  her  first  year,  when  an  unwise  division  was  made 
between  the  Mission  and  Government  School  students,  she  said,  “I 
am  a Christian,  am  I not?” 

Today  she  is  indeed  a Christian!  We  rejoice  that  she  will  go 
back  to  that  great  far  away  Government  School  to  be  a Christian 
teacher.  The  school  expects  her  to  organize  a normal  department 
of  physical  education.  Thus  she  will  influence  the  leaders  who  in 
turn  will  go  out  and  spread  the  knowledge  of  Jesus  Christ  among 
girls  and  women  who  probably  would  never  be  touched  by  Chris- 
tianity except  for  her.  What  if  we  had  not  had  that  one  vacant 
place — and  she  had  gone  to  another  so-called  Normal  School  of 
Physical  Training  in  Shanghai,  where  the  course  is  pitifully  lacking 
and  where  there  is  no  knowledge  of  Christianity? 

Have  we  a right  to  run  such  chances  of  losing  students  from 
these  great  centers?  Can  we  afford  to  carry  our  work  on  such  a 
close  margin? 


Japan’s  Needs 


American  Secretaries 


Cities  Waiting  for  Organi- 


3 Industrial 
I Public  health  worker 

1 Social  morality  worker 

3 Physical  directors 

4 General  secretaries 
4 Student  secretaries 

2 Business  secretaries 


ZATION 

Kyoto, — Student,  factory  cen- 
ter 

Kobe, — Business,  emigration, 
student 

Sendai, — Student 

Nagasaki, — Business  emigra- 
tion 

Nagoya, — Business,  student, 
factory 

Sapporo,- — Business,  student 


General 

Training  for  Japanese  secretaries. 

Three  seholarships  in  National  Training  School,  New  York. 

City 

Scholarships  in  Japan  National  Training  School. 

Building  for  training  school  for  young  Japanese  wives  en 
route  to  United  States. 

Social  settlement  centers  in  congested  factory  districts. 
Physical  training  school,  Tokyo. 

Business  school  for  typing  and  stenography  with  dormitory 
for  students. 

Summer  conference  grounds. 


Gymnasium  Class,  Tokyo 


Needs 
of 

India 

Student 
Work 

In  the 
twelve  colleges 
for  women  are 
the  future  lead- 
ers of  India. 

A few  student 
secretaries  sent 
out  now  can  ac- 
complish more 
than  many 
later. 

Women  of  Leisure 

Educated  high  caste  women  are  asking  for  leadership. 
Business  Women 

Work  among  teachers,  nurses,  and  office  w'orkers,  has  little 
more  than  begun.  In  Calcutta  is  a guild  for  Bengali  nurses.  In 
Delhi,  the  capital  of  India,  the  Government  has  given  land  for  a 
building  site,  but  no  work  has  yet  been  attempted.  Secretaries 
and  money  are  needed. 

ViLL.vGE  Work 

It  is  not  enough  to  reach  cities  and  student  centers.  Just  a 
beginning  has  been  made  in  village  work  through  night  schools, 
sanitation  lectures  and  Bible  workers. 

Equipment 

National  offices.  National  Training  Schools. 

Local  Administration  Buildings. 


Conference  Group  in  India 

3 High  Cast  Parsee  Women  1 Hill  Village  Girl 
2 Hindu  Women  1 English  Bible  Woman 

2 Orphan  Famine  Girls,  now  teachers 


Digitized  by  the  Internet  Archive 
in  2016 


https://archive.org/details/needsworldoverOOyoun 


GENEVIEVE  LOWRY 
Nanking — Mr.  Edward  Hark- 
ness 


MARY  E.  DURFEE 
Nanking — Mr,  Edward  Hark- 
ness 


HARRIET  M.  SMITH 
Shanghai — Mrs.  J.  Finley 
Shepard 


Northeastern  | 

Field  Secretaries  j 


In  China, 

India  and  Japan 


MARTHA  DOWNEY 
Madras — Rochester,  Brooklyn, 
Newark,  Bar  Harbor,  Bangor, 
Portland,  Bridgeport,  Elmira 
New  Britain 


A SUMMARY 

Twenty-five  Secretaries  supported  by 
this  Field.  ONLY  NINE  OF  WHOM 
ARE  SUPPORTED  BY  ASSOCIATIONS. 
One  is  supported  by  Wellesley  Alumnae. 
Fifteen  are  supported  by  individuals  who 
have  been  interested  by  members  of  the 
National  Board. 


MARY  BAKER 
Yokohama — Boston.  Pawtucket, 
Bronx,  New  York  City,  New'- 
burg.  The  Oranges,  New  Lon- 
don, Haverhill,  Tonawanda 


SOPHIA  MOST 
Shanghai — Mrs.  T.  P.  Prout 


ADA  GRABILL 
Peking — Syracuse 


THERESA  SEVERIN 
Peking — Wellesley  Alumnae 


KATHERINE  WILLIAMS 
Peking — Wellesley 


EDA  REDO 

Shanghai — Miss  Jean  J.  Aitkin 


ETHEL  M.  FONDA 
Tokio — Mrs.  W.  A.  Conner 


MAMIE  E.  GUNTER 
Tokio — Messrs.  Tatsuka,  Taka- 
mira,  Murai  and  Arai 


RUTH  HOOPLE 
Peking — Larkin 


ALICE  HUIE 

Shanghai — Mrs.  George  Cluett 
and  Miss  Cluett 


ABBY  MAYHEW 
Shanghai — Miss  Jean  J.  Aitkin 


South  America 

South  America  has  no  student  and  only 
one  City  Association,  Buenos  Aires. 

New  economic  and  industrial  relationships 
are  being  established  by  the  U.  S.  with  these 
great  republics. 

Has  not  the  Young  Womens  Christian 
Association  something  for  the  girls  and 
women  students,  business  women  and  women 
of  leisure? 

Hundreds  of  Spanish-speaking  girls  are 
coming  into  our  International  Institutes. 
Who  in  their  own  countries  can  tell  them 
about  America  before  they  leave?  And  what 
about  the  girls  who  never  reach  the  Insti- 
tutes ? 

South  America  needs  Secretaries  and 
buildings. 


HENRIETT.Y  THOMSON 
Shanghai — Mrs.  Frederick  G. 
Mead 


ADELIA  DODGE 
Canton — Buffalo 


China’s  Needs 

Twenty-one  Secretaries  Needed  in  China 
Why?  Five  Reasons: 

1.  Twelve  important  capital  and  coast  cities  urging  us  to 
organize  now — three  of  these  added  in  last  three  months — so  you 
see  what  another  year  may  mean  of  added  responsibilities.  They 
will  have  Associations.  We  in  America  must  largely  determine 
whether  they  shall  have  them  with  Christian  trained  leadership,  or 
whether  they  shall  be  popular  social  clubs,  controlled  and  molded 
by  non-Christian  women. 

2.  Sixty-seven  student  Associations,  a number  of  which  have 
never  been  visited  even  once  by  a secretary  of  any  type,  and  many 
have  had  only  one  short  visit  in  ten  years. 

3.  Six  summer  conferences  annually  without  anyone  to  do 
more  than  give  scraps  of  time  to  them. 

4.  Big  industrial  problems  with  no  one  to  touch  this  work, 
though  now  we  could  have  great  influences  wdth  factory  owners. 
This  opportunity  may  be  lost  unless  we  send  an  expert  this  year. 

5.  A Normal  Training  School  of  Physical  Education  with  a 
disgracefully  small  faculty,  but  with  girls  from  the  most  important 
schools  and  cities  in  China  crowding  our  doors.  Many  must  be 
turned  back  because  we  have  no  adequate  living  accommodation. 

Give  us  twenty-one  secretaries  and  a building  for  our  school 
this  year,  and  we  will  mold  the  lives  of  hundreds,  yes,  thousands 
of  Chinese  women  whom  no  other  agency  can  touch.  Shall  we  do 
it?  You  answer,  secretaries  and  committee  women  of  U.  S.  A. 


FAITH  PARMELEE 
Rangoon — Mrs.  J a ni  e s De 
Graff  and  Plainfield 


MARGARET  MACK 
Nanking — Mrs.  Willard  D. 
Straight 


HARRIET  BOUTELLE 
Canton — Central  Branch,  New 
York  City,  Lowell,  Lockport, 
Yonkers,  Poughkeepsie,  Bing- 
hamton, Hartford 


MARY  RUTHERFORD 
Calcutta — H a r 1 e m , Trenton, 
Newton,  New  Bedford,  Provi- 
dence, Lawrence,  Camden, 
Schenectady,  Jamestown,  Pas- 
saic, Paterson,  French  Branch 
N.  Y.  C.,  Albany,  Springfield, 
Lakewood 


MAUD  RUSSELL 
Nanking — Mrs.  W.  A.  Conner 
(half  salary) 


EVELYN  DERRY 
Tientsin — Mrs.  R.  H.  Paige 


GERTRUDE  STEEL-BROOKE 
Foochow — Buffalo 


FREEDA  BOSS 
Shanghai — Mrs.  John  French 


The  Northeast’s  Balance  Sheet 


Northeastern  Field  China  India  Japan 

Annual  budgets,  City  & Student $1,472,760* 

World  Service,  City  & Student  (1918)  9,900$ 

Population  20,378,036  771,771,688 

Number  of  employed  officers 506 

Number  of  employed  officers  sup- 
ported by  Field  (Ass’ns.  and  indi- 
viduals)   25 

In  other  words,  to  countries  having  39  times  our  population, 
we  send  1-20  as  many  secretaries  as  we  employ  here. 

If  the  other  ten  fields  have  the  same  kind  of  record,  it  is  small 
wonder  that  this  pamphlet  is  filled  with  two  emergency  calls — 
LEADERSHIP  and  MONEY. 

There  are  strategic  situations  in  the  Orient  and  in  South 
America  that  must  be  met  notv. 

Which  amount  will  you  give  ? 

$1400  Entire  Secretaryship. 

700  Half  Secretaryship 
350  Quarter  Secretaryship. 

120  One  month’s  Salary. 

60  Half  month’s  Salary. 

30  One  week’s  Salary. 

We  have  not  failed  the  women  of  France. 

Dare  we  fail  the  w’omen  of  other  countries? 


‘Statistics  from  Year  Book  1916-17. 

tDoes  not  include  money  given  through  other  agenciea. 


Suggested  Policy  For  The 
World  Fellowship  Committee 


Personnel 

The  World  Fellowship  Committee  shall  be  a representative 
committee  including  various  groups  in  the  Association,  such  as 
Board  of  Directors,  Physical  department.  Educational  department. 
Industrial  department,  Members  Council,  Finance,  etc.  The  re- 
ligious work  director  shall  be  the  executive.  If  there  is  no  religious 
work  director,  the  general  secretary  shall  act  as  executive. 

Duties 

Meetings — The  Committee  shall  be  responsible  for  meetings 
assigned  by  the  religious  work  department  to  world  interest  (possi- 
bly six  during  the  year).  These  should  be  planned  so  as  to  include 


“Swat  the  Fly”  Stunt  in  Health  and  Sanitation  Campaign,  Shanghai 


world  interests  receiving  special  attention  at  certain  times ; church 
W'ork  in  other  lands;  Association  w'ork  throughout  the  world;  and 
the  country  in  w’hich  the  representative  of  each  Association  works. 

It  shall  direct  the  World  Fellowship  Week  in  such  a way  that 
the  entire  membership  shall  recognize  the  significance  and  power 
of  the  world-wide  movement. 

Publicity 

It  shall  devise  means  of  securing  and  using  a world  interest 
library. 

It  shall  be  in  direct  communication  with  the  Foreign  Depart- 
ment of  the  Field  Committee  and  shall  introduce  as  far  as  practic- 
able plans  recommended  by  that  department  for  the  publicity  and 
finance  programs. 

It  shall  make  the  best  possible  use  of  reports  from  foreign 
secretaries. 

It  shall  suggest  books,  magazine  articles,  printed  matter;  pre- 
pare material  for  posters,  charts,  etc. 

Visitation 

It  shall  plan  for  the  visit  of  a secretary  representing  the  For- 
eign Department,  whether  foreign  secretary  or  from  headquarters. 

Finance 

In  co-operation  with  the  Finance  Department  it  shall  decide 
on  the  amount  of  money  to  be  raised  for  Association  work  in  other 
lands,  and  through  the  religious  work  department  recommend  the 
same  to  the  Board  of  Directors. 

It  shall  aid  in  the  Finance  Department  in  devising  means  of 
raising  the  amount  pledged  in  such  w^ays  as  will  result  in  intelligent 
giving  and  in  creating  and  developing  interest  in  all  parts  of  the 
world. 


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